What's Unique About the TWA Hotel's Retro Features?

[jtbell]

The former Trans World Airlines terminal at JFK Airport in New York, closed since 2001, has just reopened as a hotel, restored to its former appearance, with rooms containing period 1960s furniture and rotary phones.

Up, up and away at the TWA Hotel (CBS Sunday Morning)

I flew out of there once, to London, more than 40 years ago.

 

[symbolipoint]

The part that would in my estimation, not work so well for today, are the "rotary telephones". Corrective comments on this may be expected.

 

[berkeman]

I wonder if the "rotary phones" are just regular PBX phones with a dial on them that the microcontroller reads and translates into normal DTMF dialing. We need to get somebody to call us on one of them, and spin the dial so we can hear if it generates DTMF or pulses...